Monday, October 26, 2020

Joe Biden's Not-So-Secret Plan to Restructure the Supreme Court

This we know for certain: if Joe Biden wins the presidency and the Democrats capture the Senate, the Supreme Court will be restructured.

The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill FDR proposed would have added up to 50 new federal judges, created "Proctors" so that the Supreme Court could better administer the lower courts, and allowed the president to appoint one new Justice to the Supreme Court for each one over the age of 70 years and six months, up to as many as six additional Justices.

Like FDR, Vice President Biden criticizes the Supreme Court and consistently refuses to answer questions about what he intends to do about it.

"Look, the only court packing is going on right now. It's going on with the Republicans packing the court now," Biden said in reference to the appointment and confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, claiming "It's not constitutional what they're doing."

Perhaps he will take up the proposal of Bernie Sanders - who is against mere court packing - to rotate Justices off the Supreme Court to lower federal courts.

Regardless, the competing options shouldn't cause us to miss the clear objective: to restructure the federal court system in order to "Unpack" it of disagreeable appointments and make sure the Supreme Court does not stand in the way of the Democratic Party's transformative political agenda.

So here we are on the cusp of an election, and voters do not know Joe Biden's plan to restructure the Supreme Court.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2020/10/26/joe_bidens_not-so-secret_plan_to_restructure_the_supreme_court_581935.html 

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